It further looks at the position of artist vis a vis market forces, the future of art education and artistic practices in
light of austerity measures.
Lead author Dr Helena Legido - Quigley, Lecturer in Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «Our analysis is the first to look at the overall
impact of austerity measures in Spain on the healthcare system and the findings are of great concern.
As
part of austerity measures VAT on e-books has been raised to 21 % in Spain, a move that is likely to slow growth in the nascent segment.
Ending what has been a tumultuous six - month long negotiation process, last week the Greek Parliament approved the first
package of austerity measures required by Greece's creditors as part of the «Greekment» reached in the early morning hours of 13 July 2015 in order to initiate talks on a Third Fiscal Adjustment Programme (or «Memorandum») and avoid Greece's expulsion from the Eurozone.
However, the health and social care sector have experienced challenges in recent years as a result
of austerity measures in the public sector which has had implications for the pay and pensions of those working in the sector.
Mr. Schäuble made his remarks in a radio interview hours after the Greek Parliament voted reluctantly to approve the first
set of austerity measures demanded by its European creditors in return for a chance to negotiate the new bailout package, its third in five years.
Exports to China slipped by 7.6 per cent to $ 223 million as a combination
of austerity measures imposed by the Chinese government to limit spending by government officials and organisations on luxury products, and a higher dollar, hit sales.
The fall for ebooks is very welcome, although the overall rise to 7 % is to be deplored, but is an unfortunate
result of the austerity measures we're currently having imposed on us.
According to early reports, this Memorandum cover the Greece's financing needs for the next three years, but will require the harshest set
of austerity measures of the three fiscal adjustment programmes to date.
«Tragically, the impact
of austerity measures on suicides is more significant and lasting than prosperity ‐ related events, such as the launch of the Euro in Greece, and appears to affect both men and women, though the trend is more pronounced in men.»
He also sits on the Board of Directors, and in May 2015 he made a donation of $ 133,000 to the foundation to make up for funding it had lost as a part
of the austerity measures put in place by Governor Bruce Rauner to address the state's $ 1.5 billion budget deficit.
The current impasse between Greece, the EU and the IMF over the
implementation of austerity measures sent the country's two - year bond yields rising to around 10.09 percent on Thursday, their highest level since June last year, on fears that the country could soon run out of cash and would not be able to make crucial debt repayments.
But the intervention by the IMF will undermine EU leaders who argue Greece must submit to a fresh
round of austerity measures to release funds for debt repayments.
They have since U-turned on both the timing and the
scale of the austerity measures; Cable claims he was persuaded of the case for deep and early cuts, «not by other politicians, but by talking to the most senior officials in the government and the central bank [who said] that we had to act».
With each of these shifts there were prior events which informed those acting - for 1, the strength and determination for a post-war alternative amongst working people; 2, the defeat of Heath; 3, the Labour govt's
adoption of austerity measures; 4, successive trade union defeats and mass unemployment; 5, Labour's unprecedented electoral success and changing social attitudes.
Commenting ahead of tomorrow's TUC march in London against the Government's cuts and austerity programme, Christine Blower General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This march will send a clear message to Government that their
programme of austerity measures is not working.
Oddly, in an attempt to make the party's economic message credible, they are allowing the press — from the right wingers to the left — to paint them as
supportive of austerity measures that aren't working.
His administration took power during a nightmarish financial crisis: the former governor of the Bank of England warned that whoever took office could be out of power for a generation because of the
severity of the austerity measures it would need to implement.
Specifically, a situation where the executive arm of government plans to borrow about N1.8 tn in order to finance a budget deficit of about 37 per cent that is largely structured in favour of very high recurrent expenditure contents does not speak well or support the
gospel of austerity measures that the Federal Government is trying to preach to the masses.
But if the government and its officials decide to be part and
parcel of the austerity measures, then the masses will be ready to join hands with the political class in salvaging the nation from the economic ruin starring us in the face.
Nick Clegg has begun to think about these questions and today's Telegraph reports that he wants the elderly to shoulder a bigger
share of austerity measures.
At roughly the same time in 2011, the researchers found a 36 percent abrupt and sustained increase in suicides among women, the same month large, organized
protests of austerity measures were held.
While the decision of the Spanish government to implement a
series of austerity measures to address the public deficit is fully understandable, UNWTO expressed great concern that such measures have translated into the end of a separate Secretariat for Tourism.
The Greek parliament has voted narrowly in favour of a package
of austerity measures aimed at preventing the nation from defaulting on its debts.
He wondered why the nation did not simply choose to exit the European Union rather than go through the
pain of austerity measures.
Regarding old measures, the Greek Government had to revise its promise to cancel
many of the austerity measures it heavily criticized since 2010 as an opposition party, agreeing to «refrain from any rollback of measures and unilateral changes to the policies and structural reforms that would negatively impact fiscal targets, economic recovery or financial stability, as assessed by the institutions.»
For the past seven years, injured workers have borne the
brunt of austerity measures implemented by the WSIB in a bid to get its financial house in order.
«We are talking about the future of the people we care about, we are talking about how we handle continuing levels of austerity and fairness, and whether the rich get richer and those at the very, very sharp
end of austerity measures, the loss of public services gets worse,» he said.
Only then does Corbyn have a chance to deliver his real message about the impact of changes to tax credits, the
impact of austerity measures, the inequity of the housing market and how there is an alternative economic strategy.»
I mean, literally not only have they, as a population, been cut to no social safety net, no social security, yet the Syriza government keeps getting supported, elected in referendums, and they seem to be able to maintain power in
spite of these austerity measures.
In his New Year message, the Labour leader denounces the «irresponsible pace and scale»
of austerity measures which he says will be felt «by hard - working families».
There was uproar when the Government increased the caps to # 9,000 as
part of austerity measures, but it's still a much better deal than in the U.S..
The Opposition forced a vote for today on the end
of austerity measures (not all) in regards to pay cap on public sector jobs.
Only 15 %
of the austerity measures have bitten.
The chancellor even published charts breaking down the impact
of the austerity measures — not something that happened in Labour - era budgets.
On the contrary, after years of discussions in Brussels, the science adviser's office became a «casualty»
of austerity measures, Glover says.
«Things in Europe are very uncertain right now in terms of how
all of these austerity measures are going to play out,» agrees Ann Natunewicz, national manager of retail research at Colliers International in Washington, D.C..